with Sémillante escorting convoys between Bordeaux and Brest. Lieutenant de vaisseaux Gaillard replaced de Bruix. On 21 May 1793, Sémillante captured...
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the name Sémillante ("shiny" or "sparkling"): French corvette Sémillante, a 20-gun Coquette-class corvette (1780–1787) French frigate Sémillante (1792)...
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The Sémillante class was a type of 12-pounder, 32-gun frigate of the French Navy, designed by Pierre-Joseph Pénétreau. Sémillante Builder: Lorient Ordered:...
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The Sémillante was a Surveillante class 60-gun first rank frigate of the French Navy. She sank off the coast of Corsica in 1855 with a loss of 693 people...
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the Strait of Bonifacio was that of the French frigate Sémillante on February 15, 1855. Sémillante had left the port of Toulon the day before on her way...
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HMS Terpsichore (1785) (section Sémillante)
advantageous position, until Sémillante ceased fire at 8 and bore round to escape. The reason for this was that Sémillante apparently suffered an explosion...
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L'Insurgente was a 40-gun Sémillante-class frigate of the French Navy, launched in 1793. During the Quasi War with the United States, the United States...
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Cléopâtre. During the previous month, Cléopâtre and another frigate, Sémillante, had been successfully raiding British merchant shipping in the English...
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lives in Bonifacio, Corsica, with her only son, Antoine, and his hound, Sémillante (the name means vivacious or spry). Antoine is stabbed to death by a neighbour...
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Betzy was the Channel Islands brig Betsey that the French frigate Sémillante captured in May 1793, that the French Navy took into service, and that the...
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